This is a time-based release, scheduled to come out about 1 year after jEdit 5.1, and is a collection of enhancements, bug fixes and patches submitted by the community. Detailed changes can be found in the Detailed Change Log.
There are no major new features in this release. You can think of it mostly as a bugfix release, although there are quite a lot of UI enhancements also.
With continued support from the community, we will keep releasing a newer version each year that can accurately bring together the fruits of everyone's labor. Thank you to each and every one of the contributors who helped make 5.2 the best version of jEdit ever.

VFS WorkThreads have been rewritten into Tasks, making it possible to completely remove the old "I/O Progress Monitor"
and the wasteful space it took up in the Task Monitor. Old deprecated classes related to WorkThread and WorkThreadPool
have been removed.

New Plugin Manager option to check for and disable obsolete plugins. Enabled by default, this will ensure that old
unsupported plugins do not interfere with the running operation of jEdit.

Added another language to our list of translated languages: English, French, German, Japanese, Czech, Russian, and now
Chinese! We are always looking for volunteers to help translate jEdit into Hindi, Korean, or Spanish, or any other
language, really! It is fairly easy to add a new translation to jEdit or the plugins.

There is now a new encoding Native2ASCII which collapses unicode escapes in ISO-8859-1 files on read and expands
characters that cannot be encoded with ASCII as unicode escapes on write. This encoding is the one Java properties
should be in.

WorkThreads have been rewritten into Tasks, making it possible to completely remove the old
"I/O Progress Monitor" and the wasteful space it took up in the Task Monitor. Old deprecated
classes related to WorkThread and WorkThreadPool have been removed.

New Plugin Manager option to check for and disable obsolete plugins. Enabled by default,
this will ensure that old unsupported plugins do not interfere with the running operation of jEdit.

Localization - jEdit now supports switching between default locale, French, German, Russian, Czech, and Japanese.
Some translations for those locales are provided, containing common jEdit labels. It is also now possible to add
new or contribute to existing translation property files for jEdit core as well as for plugins.

Keymaps - named collections of shortcuts. Example keymaps for Emacs, MacOS, German Keyboard, Intellij and classic
jEdit are provided, and users can create or customize them.

New Editing options: Disable or simplified automatic indentation, and default response when opening a large file.

Scrolling - Many bugs (#2832769, #2998294, #3193168, possibly others), related to soft wrap, multiline delete/cut,
undo, and folding, that could cause the text area to be confused about its location, are fixed. This greatly
improves the stability of jEdit. Thank you, Thomas Meyer!

I proudly present 4.4.1, the first official stable release of the
4.4 series of jEdit.

I want to appologize again for the confusion that arised when the faulty
4.4 release was created and then taken back down. To avoid confusion
about what version someone is using, the 4.4 release is skipped
completely.

Here are some convenient links to see the live state of major problems:

in a long hard piece of work I cleaned up our wiki completely from the spam. I not only fixed the pages, I also deleted all the spam revisions and spam users. I even recreated the TWikiUsers topic how it should be. So now the wiki is cleaned up and usable again. Have fun using it.

Unfortunately I had to roll-back a backup of the wiki-content from 26. July 2005, because of a loss of data.
For the future there is a daily backup made automatically.
Please redo any changes that you did since the Backup.

I had to delete dozens of Spam-Comments every day which were submitted by anonymous users, so I decided to not allow anonymous users to make forum-topics or post comments anymore. Now, as the mail-sending works again, everyone who wants to post can make a new or request a new password for his account.
I appologize for inconvenience, but anonymous users can still read and download all things, just not post.
For problems regarding registration on the community-page you can contact me directly via eMail Vampire@jEdit.org

I already wrote it to the Users-Mailinglist, but maybe not all are signed in there, so I write it here again.
I fixed the problem of the community-page not being able to send mails, which prevented new users from creating accounts and old users to request a new password because the mails didn't get to them.
So if you registered an account but never received the password-mail, just go toRequest new password and request a new one. And of course the same if you forgot your password and need a new one, even if you already tried it and didn't receive a mail. NOW it should send you the requested mail.